ISO Snapshots

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Jan 15 14:53:45 PST 2004


On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:33:28PM -0500, David Rhodus wrote:
> >I dont think we should just drop the regular ISO's before we have an
> >installsystem for the livecd..
> > 
> >
> We did'nt just "drop" it. The kernel has become too large to fit onto 
> the floppies
> that the regular `make release` users, so that means to have the older 
> `make release`
> work again we'd have to re-work a lot of the older code which at this 
> time is point
> less since we can do installs via the live ISO.

I'll try to sort out the floppy issue, but having a CD-ROM drive will
be a requirement. ATM I don't have the time to build a disk image for
things like network installation. we might want to add that before
release.

Joerg

[snip]
> -DR





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